Nutrition Education Project: Supporting teachers in promoting nutrition and wellness education for kids.

The Nutrition Education Project website is a resource for teachers and staff to support student academic performance through nutrition education and physical activity promotion.

About Us

What's New

Our Nutrition Project Is On Television
Watch "Smart Eating Habits Start Early" featuring our nutrition project live on ABC news. View TV show...

How Healthy are San Francisco Students?
The FITNESSGRAM data for 2006-07 is now posted in our Learn the Facts Section. Review data ...

Strawberries - May Harvest of the Month
Did you know that strawberries provide more than 140 percent of the recommended daily value of Vitamin C? Learn more...

Nutrition Poster Contest Enter our "Pick Me Fruit or Vegetable" contest by to win a healthy snack homeroom party. Entries must be received by May 2.
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Learn how San Francisco students are doing in national and local healthy habit trends and physical activity.	Keep up with our news, educator support, and policies, to better teach nutrition. See us in action.	Discover links to nutrition and physical activity web sites to support school-wide efforts for healthy change.
Nutrition Education In Action

Kindergarten Students Get an A for Apple-Based Learning

What do Harvest of the Month and Rosa Park kindergartners have in common? Apples!

The kindergarteners have been busy measuring the height, weight and circumference (the distance around the edge of a circle) of red, yellow and green apples using non standard measurements; they’ve observed and recorded that their apples were from three to four cubes tall, weighed as much as 16 wooden cubes, and were as long around as a seven-inch piece of yarn. Learn more ...

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Nutrition Education Project
San Francisco Unified School District
School Health Programs Department
1515 Quintara San Francisco, CA 94116
PH: (415) 242-2615 FAX: (415) 242-2618